Links, More Photos, Blogs & Other Things
Beach Road Studios - great studio in Goderich, Ontario, run by the incomparable Siegfried Meir, where I recorded and mastered TWELFTH NIGHT
William Bolcom - composer, my teacher from the University of MIchigan
Justin Ellington - good friend, composer and songwriter, colleague and collaborator
Amy X Neuberg - one of the most interesting and unique composers and performers I know, I encourage all to check out her music
Randy Newman - composer, songwriter, a great mentor and friend
Dan Moses Schreier - great composer and sound designer, a good old friend - old roommate! - and collaborator
Spence-Thomas Audio - great mix studio in Toronto, run by my pal Richard Spence-Thomas, where we mixed the TEMPEST & 12TH NIGHT films
Peter Sprague - I've recorded most of my music with Peter for the past 20 years at Spragueland - great musician, composer, & one of the finest guitarists in the country.
Mac Wellman - great writer and theatre artist, a collaborator for many years
Willow Pond Films (Peter Miller, Amy Linton) - my good friends, the director and editor and co-producers of JEWS AND BASEBALL
Composing for AIDA TRUMPETS (in Ab & B)
links to websites about artists and friends who have meant the most to me -
for names, info, and photos of a few others, please see the TSDCA SALON page
Remembering Zero - thoughts on working with Mostel
With guitarist Peter Sprague & cellist Steve Erdody
Accompanying ZERO MOSTEL at a charity event (1973) -
Not a great photo (of me), but great to work with these great friends (and my CD is in the background)
Fanfare players Mary Jay, Rob Stone, Steve McDade, Kate Stone - with Aida Trumpets, HENRY V, Stratford Festival (2012)
Whenever I was with the late great pianist Mike Lang someone would
take a photo, including Bonnie Perkinson, after seeing 200 MOTELS with
the LA Phil - click for a photo of Mike with Zappa recording LUMPY GRAVY
(back when he was one of the only guys who could actually play it!)
My great-grandparents,
near the deli they owned in Paris, circa 1910.
Leonard Rose, Glenn Gould, Oscar Shumsky on the Stratford Festival Stage,
circa 1961 - I walked by this photo outside of the Green Room at Stratford
everyday at Stratford, and was always humbled by the thought that I was
walking on and composing for the same stage that Gould had years before -
with Mike Lang (RIP)
Charles Ives Xmas Carol Holiday Video - 2016
Video Tribute - STRAWBERRY FIELDS for GEORGE MARTIN - RIP
Click for some thoughts on the remarkable DAVID RAKOFF -RIP
With Winston photo by Herb Siquenza
Remembering a strange gig - thoughts on David Copley RIP-
Arranging a medley for a firework display for the
Copley Press Party, preceding
the Republican Convention - 1996
The Hendrix/Mash-Up sections from the Copley Fireworks Medley
also including Laibach, Orff, and Mussorgsky
Allen Ginsberg Early Sonnet - for inspiration
“I'd be more willing to accept religion,
even if I didn't believe it,
if I thought it made people nicer to each other
but I don't think it does.”
― Andy Rooney - Sincerely, Andy Rooney
